When I Grow Up, I’m Going to Non-Sequitur University

Shorter Ross Douthat: “Executing the occasional innocent person is a price worth paying to stimulate a prison reform movement that shows no sign of happening despite the fact that we execute innocent people.”

Take lessons, children: the idea that injustice A shouldn’t be addressed because of injustice B (which, in turn, of course must yield to hypothetical concern for injustice C) is the single most important weapon in the arsenal of the “moderate” reactionary. (Cf. “You can’t unionize if any group of workers anywhere is worse off than you are.”)